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You’ve made 10 posts on Lemmy and 6 of them are shitting on Biden by name. 2 of the remaining 4 are shitting on Harris by name. Kind of sounds like an unhealthy obsession, in multiple ways.
Why not shit on a terrible president, and a terrible candidate that directly led to Trump getting re-elected? Maybe if the dems had been willing to call out their own, we wouldn't be where we are now.
Shit needs to be called out, Democrats sure as fuck won't do it.
Trump admin just announced they're ethnic cleansing 1m Palestinians from Gaza, but thank you for holding the memory lapse thing to account 🫡
Ethnic cleansing enabled by democrats that claim they supported a ceasefire when they did no such thing. An ethnic cleansing enabled by liberal voters parroting those lies to people that were calling them out
K, but he's no longer the president.
How is the current president doing?
The current president is doing terrible. But Trump wouldn't be president if Biden hadn't been such a terrible president.
Maybe Biden should have fought for the people he proposed to represent, so that everyone wouldn't be so desperate to see the system burn down that they were willing to vote for Trump.
VERY STABLE, in all caps, apparently. Because that's how stable people type all the time. You're also not supposed to take anything he says seriously, y'know...like every other stable and speaking person. That's how that works.
Right? Who takes what one of the most powerful people in the world says seriously? If you don’t like it it’s just a prank, bro! Comedy is so back! You’re being sent to Libya or Rwanda or El Salvador for a sketch! Why aren’t you laughing?
Yep an Administration is more than just the president. It's the competent people that surround him. Instead of having a president suffering from lapses surrounded by some of the best most competent people. Now we have an idiot surrounded by sycophants and sociopaths. This is so much better/s
Yep an Administration is more than just the president. It's the competent people that surround him.
Yeah, having a bunch of anti-worker, pro-coporate, war-mongers led to people being desperate enough to vote for Trump. Maybe Biden should have done something about that when he had the chance, so that people wouldn't be so disenfranchised with the Democrats that made Trump seem eligible.
Warn us about what ?
I mean ... so what did Biden do as a response ?
Didn't Biden step aside instead of threatening to invade allies ?
Biden was given the same unlimited power from a SCOTUS ruling for any official act the POTUS could not be criminalized. And Biden put aside power and force for the greater good of the Republic.
But then again Biden has always been more a new Cincinnatus than a new Caesar.
The same Biden who hung on desperately until the last minute? Until he was forced out after being insanely and obviously unfit for the position?
The same Biden who refused to act against when a dictatorship knocked on his front door? The same Biden who sacrificed the "good of the Republic" because he cared more about holding on to power than the cared about fighting against fascism?
If the Democrats had convinced Biden not to run for reelection (or invoked the 25th Amendment), held a proper primary, nominated a genuinely popular candidate, clearly denounced Israel’s actions, and offered a cohesive, forward-looking platform - one that voters could support rather than just oppose - the US might not be in this mess right now. Alternatively, they could have prosecuted and convicted Trump for treason or inciting insurrection between 2021 and 2024, and barred him from running for office again. In either case, their failure to act decisively has directly contributed to facilitating Trump’s return.
Sure, but that "genuinely popular candidate" may still have been Harris, or even worse, Gavin Newsom. Even though neither would have won the Lemmy Primary ...
Harris? The candidate who received exactly 844 votes in the 2020 primaries and secured zero delegates? The same vice president who, as of June 2023, held a net favorability rating of -17% - the lowest ever recorded for someone in that office? Newsom? A textbook status-quo California liberal? If these are your “best” options, then frankly, you kind of deserve to lose.
You're not wrong, but the Democratic Primary is not set up to pick the best candidate. It's set up to coronate the one who is next in line.
When Obama won in 2008, it was actually an aberration. The party made sure to fix it in 2016, when thet shut down the old Socialist's campaign in order to coronate the first woman President. How did that turn out?
If there were a primary in 2024, they would have put their finger on the scale again to pre-nominate someone. The only open question would have been if they were compelled to nominate someone without a penis again. It seems too many voters see having a penis as a requirement for the job. So if it came down to the quasi-incumbent, penis-lacking VP against an individual experienced, penis-having contender, then it might have an actual contest.